Word: columbiad
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Sollors' recent publications with HU Pressinclude The Return of Thematic Criticism, TheBlack Columbiad, and the paperback edition ofNeither Black Nor White But Both...
...lunar module that will land on the moon's surface has been christened Eagle because, Armstrong said, it is "representative of the flight and the nation's hope." The command module that will carry the astronauts back to earth has been dubbed Columbia, a close approximation of Columbiad, the name that Jules Verne gave to his lunar craft in his 1865 novel, From the Earth to the Moon. Prophetically, Verne launched Columbiad from a site in Florida and brought it down in the Pacific Ocean, where it was picked up by a U.S. naval vessel...
...abolitionist band (its Ruffin-inscribed label: "Sample of the favors designed for us by our Northern brethren"), to see his dream of disunion come true. This-4:30 a.m.. April 12, 1861-was his great moment. Edmund Ruffin stepped proudly forward, pulled the lanyard of a columbiad and sent the first of some 600 rebel shells crashing into Fort Sumter; thus began the Civil...
...What of Irving, and was even Irving the first? Is it wise to say that the poet projected a drama on Cotton Mather but nothing came of it (pp. 226-227), when that redoubtable Puritan figures as he does in the New England Tragedies? And, surely, Joel Barlow's Columbiad, even though it may be "mercifully forgotten," need not be pushed further into oblivion by misspelling its title. This, no doubt, is a mere slip in proof-reading. So, of course, but none the less diverting for that, is Mr. Gorman's new promulgation of the classic "howler" that...
...Class of '91 in Columbia College has decided to unite its Junior publications. The conditions of the consolidation are that the combined book shall not have either of the present name "Columbiad" and "Miner," and that the Editorial Board shall consist of five representatives from the School of Arts and four from the School of Mines. The fifth "Arts" man is to be editor-in-chief...